• Patchwork

    Love you Queensland – A Forest Quilt.

    This quilt started as a idea to merge together two different shapes/grids – squares andtriangles/hexagons. The tree trunks are squares and the foliage triangles and hexagons.The tricky part was how to move smoothly from one grid to the other and I am happy with the way Idid it. At the time I was designing it there was a quilt competition in Brisbane called ‘Love you Queensland’so I added borders to represent the borders of the state and entered. I didn’t win, nor did I expect tobut it was a great exercise. It took me a full month of 10 hour…

  • Tutorials

    Eco-dyeing basics

    I decided to write this blog in response to questions asked in Susan Taylor Brown’s livestream chat group. I realised that with a bit of basic information artists would be able to get better results with their eco-dyeing projects. If…

  • News

    Welcome to Scrapbag Studios

    Hi, My name is Margaret Berry. I am a textile artist. Patchwork, free-motion and hand embroidery, felting, eco-dyeing, reusing, recycling, mixed media artworks, knitting, crochet, and whatever takes my fancy as I go along. I have made for sale bags,…